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Great American Dream Machines is a series of model cars. ... GADM #9 — 1956 Packard Predictor — pearlescent white ... GADM #1051 — 1956 Oldsmobile Golden Rocket ...
The 1957 and 1958 Packard lineup of automobiles were based on Studebaker models: restyled, rebadged, and given more luxurious interiors. After 1956 production, the Packard engine and transmission factory was leased to the Curtiss-Wright Corporation while the assembly plant on Detroit's East Grand Boulevard was sold, ending the line of Packard-built cars.
1956 Predictor concept, at the Studebaker National Museum. During the 1950s, a number of "dream cars" were built by Packard in an attempt to keep the marque alive in the imaginations of the American car-buying public.
The sales decline at Packard affected Henney which had an exclusive contract with Packard since 1937. Packard discontinued chassis for the professional-car business and Henney closed the Freeport plant. [3] One of the last assignments for Arbib was for an ambulance based on the 1955 Ford Thunderbird. [3]
The last Teague design for Packard was the Executive, introduced in mid-1956 and derived from the Clipper Custom, launched just as sales of the luxury Packard line collapsed. Teague also designed the last Packard show car, the Predictor, plus a new Packard and Clipper lineup for 1957 that would have followed the general lines of the Predictor.
The car was featured on the 3 September 1956 cover of Newsweek magazine. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Astra-Gnome was a highlight at the 1956 New York International Auto Show . [ 8 ] About 1,000 questionnaire cards were distributed to viewers at the auto show, with results indicating an 80% favorable response to the prototype. [ 4 ]
The Ford Nucleon was a concept car announced by Ford in 1958. [63] The design lacked the capacity to house an internal combustion engine and was instead designed to be powered by a then nonexistent small nuclear power plant in the rear of the vehicle, similar to a submarine's. [64] The Mercury XM-800 was one of many concept cars created by Ford ...
The Henney professional cars (hearse, ambulance, flower car, service car) built on the 156 in (3,962 mm) wheelbase commercial chassis generally used Patrician-like trim except for 1954, which used Cavalier-like trim, and was offered in a hardtop body style called the Packard Pacific. Since the professional cars were fully coachbuilt bodies (not ...